2025-01-25 20:28
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Tags: character freethinking
Reference
Recovering Overthinker recommendation
Notes:
Restoring Pride by Richard Taylor brazenly opens by addressing the fact that his ideas are elitist.
There are three sections to the book, honestly 2 of the sections hardly deserve a mention.
- Pride and what it is
- Mannerisms (Low fidelity HTWFIP but also gentlemanly at times)
- Happiness (circling in on his definition from the greeks)
Creating your Own Life
p.60 "If you make of your own life a work of art, and it becomes beautiful in your eyes, (bearing in mind that your standards are high and severe) then what do you care if the world is blind to the worth of what you have created? You will have satisfied the judge who counts, for that is no one but you."
This is well and easy, but it requires of us something which we have been trained to do very early on. To disregard the judgements and validations of others as worthless, and to set oyur own standard.
To not allow others to create a life for them, to love ourselves because of what others think of us rather than what we think of ourselves.
p.62 “If you can declare to yourself that this life, that is, the way you have lived and the things you have achieved, are your own creation, then you can love yourself justifiably. You can be proud.” “if to any extent the way you live your life is a response to how others would have you live it, it really is not your life at all.”